Rat & Swan wrote:
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> Bill wrote:
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>> This laughable claptrap about how it's "necessary" for meat
>> production to stop before *anything* can be done about collateral
>> animal deaths in vegetable production was dealt with before,
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> Never, since it is a strawman of your invention

No, it isn't. It's precisely what you say. You claim
that your inaction - your continued participation in
the collateral slaughter of animals you don't eat -
continues only because the slaughter of animals that
are eaten continues.

You make your behavior according to principle
contingent on other people's behavior. That's
bullshit. It's not a strawman; it's your bullshit
rationale for your inaction, your failure to live
according to principle.

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> No one says "nothing" can be done; much is done on an
> individual and small-group basis.

Nothing is done, and you rationalize your do-nothing
approach by blaming others.

> But, as I have said,

Once again.

> for society _in general_

No one is interested in "society in general". People
are interested in your moral hypocrisy.